Video: Armitage says it was “foolish” of him to out Plame
posted at 11:04 am on November 12, 2007 by Bryan
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Former Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage appeared on CNN’s Late Edition Sunday. After discussing Pakistan and the war on terror in general, Wolf Blitzer played a clip of Valerie Plame calling Armitage “foolish” for outing her identity to columnist Robert Novak.
Foolish. She has called other Bush figures who had no role in her outing criminals, but the man who actually outed her is merely “foolish.”
And Armitage, who concealed his role in outing her long enough for Scooter Libby to end up convicted of perjury in the case, agreed that he acted “foolishly.”
How long will we have to wait before Tom Maguire’s head explodes?
More: Lawhawk adds–
It was foolish that Patrick Fitzgerald spent nearly two years trying to find out whether someone leaked the identity of Plame when Armitage was quick to admit this to him. And yet, the Left harbored fantasies of Fitzmas and perp walking members of the White House, especially Karl Rove, for a non-crime.
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Foolish my $ss, it was a carefully crafted and executed plan to disgrace the Bush administration and possible result in a coup.
doriangrey on November 12, 2007 at 11:19 AM
That just steams me up.
It is swarmy characters like that which makes me wonder how the heck our nation will make it to its 300th birthday.
itzWicks on November 12, 2007 at 11:19 AM
This wasn’t a simple case of swarmy characters, it was a collusion between the elitist liberal MSM and the democrats to pull off a bloodless coup and remove the Bush administration. It was an attempted coup and the democrats and the MSM should be tried for treason for it.
doriangrey on November 12, 2007 at 11:23 AM
Someone needs to remind Richard Armitage about his conversation with Bob Woodward
AndrewsDad on November 12, 2007 at 11:27 AM
Foggy Bottom back stabbers? That’s nothing new. The main problem with diplomats is they think everything can be solved with diplomacy.
trubble on November 12, 2007 at 11:29 AM
It will be a glorious day when some arm of the MSM, like the NYT, does a full mea culpa about this whole stupid affair and sets the record straight for the libtards. It won’t happen, but it will still be a glorious day if it did.
Mallard T. Drake on November 12, 2007 at 11:34 AM
I didn’t know Uncle Fester was in Government.
Kini on November 12, 2007 at 11:40 AM
All law is politics.
That Scooter Libby was indicted and ruined and this guy walks free proves my maxim.
Oh. It also proves another maxim:
Dub Yuh has no balls.
None.
Not one.
Labamigo on November 12, 2007 at 11:52 AM
Could Libby have had his trial elsewhere, where the jurors were more intelligent and less biased?
JiangxiDad on November 12, 2007 at 11:53 AM
“Why did the Press out her? ” is the question.
Someone can leak like a sieve, but if the media were responsibile, it would not get out.
Hear that NYT, etc.?
profitsbeard on November 12, 2007 at 11:56 AM
Because the attempted coup would have had zero chance then?
doriangrey on November 12, 2007 at 12:02 PM
Where is this memo that Armitage is talking about? Maybe I missed something, but I’ve never heard this angle.
Buy Danish on November 12, 2007 at 12:12 PM
Ship of fools
SouthernGent on November 12, 2007 at 12:19 PM
You should read the AP version of the Armitage interview. Guess who gets mentioned by the sixth sentence?
BohicaTwentyTwo on November 12, 2007 at 12:20 PM
How do they sleep?
mymanpotsandpans on November 12, 2007 at 12:20 PM
And it was gutless of him not to step up when Scooter Libby was being crucified inthe press and by that corrupt special prosecutor.
Armitage is a scumbag, pure and simple.
Always Right on November 12, 2007 at 12:26 PM
Drugs, lots and lots of drugs……..
doriangrey on November 12, 2007 at 12:27 PM
Libby should turn around and sue all of them for wrongful prosecution, libel and slander, or at the very least, some type of conspiracy.
Rick on November 12, 2007 at 12:39 PM
What a idiot musclehead.
RobCon on November 12, 2007 at 12:59 PM
From AP:
Novak said it was Armitage. Did he also say Rove spilled it? New one on me.
iurockhead on November 12, 2007 at 1:15 PM
How come he’s not sitting in a jail cell?
oldelpasoan on November 12, 2007 at 1:58 PM
Ummm, Because he’s a democrat???
doriangrey on November 12, 2007 at 2:03 PM
It’s pretty obvious, the whole thing was cooked up by the State Dept. - the dept. that oversees the C.I.A.
Remember who was Secretary of State?…Colin Powell…Someone with an axe to grind.
This whole ordeal is nothing more than an obfuscating ass-covering exercise by the C.I.A. and Colin Powell, to cover their own ineptitude, and blame someone else.
franksalterego on November 12, 2007 at 2:05 PM
Is it my imagination,or has Rove gained a ton of weight, lost the glasses and the rest of his hair……..
ritethinker on November 12, 2007 at 2:08 PM
Whether or not he intended to do it initially, there is no question that others saw the opportunity to attack the White House and took it. Powell, who spent the last half of his time as SecState undermining the President, was a key player in this effort. The special Prosecutor, who new all along about it, should suffer the same fate and embarassment as Nifong.
Lancer on November 12, 2007 at 2:43 PM
What Armature did may have been foolish, but not coming out with that fact before lives where ruined and millions of dollars spent was absolutely dishonorable.
TheSitRep on November 12, 2007 at 2:52 PM
Wow! Her coming to the realization that she is complete moron sounds like she is on a path to enlightenment.
TheSitRep on November 12, 2007 at 3:01 PM
Not a coup. But part of the Democrats plan to regain power.
See Rules for Radicals, number 8.
georgej on November 12, 2007 at 3:55 PM
A way needs to be found to break the Democrat-Bureaucrat-Reporter triangle.
How can I have confidence in any of the three when they collude so obviously to distort justice?
Merovign on November 12, 2007 at 6:54 PM
And Sandy Berger is free as a bird. Why? Because he’s a democrat.
RMCS_USN on November 12, 2007 at 11:39 PM
Exactly what I was thinking. Why weasels like him continue to be given government jobs in Republican administrations I’ll never know. This d@mn fool should have been cut loose many years ago.
91Veteran on November 13, 2007 at 1:13 AM